I have two twenty-something grown sons. Both are hard-core Conservatives with a strong work ethic. And they live at home, paying rent, insurance, and maintain their own vehicles. It makes sense for them to live at home right now, while saving money for the time where they can get a place of their own that is not in Shitsville, or some rotten house or apartment. My younger son has been out of the house twice, understands that poverty sucks, and that saving up is the best way to be able to establish independence. They are terrific young men!
Now on the other end of the spectrum...I had a young woman (21) as a student several weeks ago who is the perfect example of the article I linked to - thinks she's privledged and a little princess, and always used to getting her way. When faced with a difficult lesson, or a question she didn't know the answer to, she'd start tearing up and ready to cry! Apparently, crying allowed her to get her way. Not with me. I don't play that game at all! I asked her a question on material she had been introduced to three days earlier, and the expectation was that she would give me the right answers. She shrugged her shoulders and said "I don't know!"...I replied "Whaddya mean, you don't know? You are being evaluated on this material tomorrow, and you don't know?" Then, the tears started to flow. THAT pissed me off. I told her "No one cries in this class! You are an adult, we have adult expectations of you and your classmates, and if you can not handle that, we can go across the hall to see the senior and you cn tell HIM why you are a little crybaby? Do you want that???" She whimpered "No", and I asked her the original question again, and she got it right. I told her, and the rest of the class, that "there is no crying in the US Air Force! You are adults, act like adults! Your job is vital, and we don't put up with crybabies and whiners! You want to do that, apparently colleges encourage that!" BTW, she is a college graduate. Speaks volumes to me.
